'"But that book was written in 1908. Based on what I've seen on Downton Abbey, things were a lot different then." Well, yes, obviously, there had just been a

'"But that book was written in 1908. Based on what I've seen on Downton Abbey, things were a lot different then." Well, yes, obviously, there had just been a massive leap forward in technology and industrialization, a booming economy fueling a wealth gap, temporarily course corrected by a financial panic "precipitated" by the failure of two overspeculating brokerage houses. There were also, simultaneously, great advances in progressive causes like worker's rights and food quality, all on the background of decreasing importance of religion among educated whites in favor of science. Not physics or chemistry, but evolution. Tabloids were incomprehensibly popular, partisan media the norm. A loosening of conventional morality manifested as bored promiscuity, female bisexuality, and a flood of new porn the likes of which never existed before. "That does sound different. And awesome. What did their Millennial kids inherit, what did they experience over their adult lives, say 1929-1945?" I totally don't know, Boardwalk Empire only goes up to 1924 and Mad Men starts 1960.' http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2013/09/how_does_the_shutdown_relate_t.html http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2013/09/how_does_the_shutdown...